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| April 28, 2004
| Math
FactID: 26
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Hiroyuki Goto is the current world record
holder for the most digits of Pi (3.14...) memorized.
He spent nine hours and recited
42,000+ digits correctly in 1995.
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| April 27, 2004
| World
FactID: 25
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The US has about 5% of the worlds population.
(293M/6.362B)
The US controls 53% of the worlds wealth.
The US accounts for about 45% of the worlds gasoline consumption.
The US produces 25% of the worlds emissions.
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| April 26, 2004
| Business
FactID: 24
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The newly appointed CEO of Dell,
Kevin
Rollins, was a Bain consultant
for 12 years before joining Dell in 1993.
Dell has $41 Billion in yearly revenues - 30% of the US PC
market - and operates with only three days of inventory.
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|  Source: Fortune
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| April 25, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 23
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IP (Internet Protocol), the way computers
talk on the internet, defines an addressing scheme so that every
device attached to a network can be uniquely identified and
contacted.
IPv4 (IP Version 4), which is what we are currently using,
allocates 32 bits for addresses. Hence there are up to 232
= 4,294,967,296 addresses. 4 billion addresses for computers,
etc.
However, we are running
out of IP addresses. The next version of IP, version 6,
allocates 128-bits for identifying each network device. That
is, there will be 2128 = 3.4 x 1038 =
340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses.
There are 7.5 x 1018 grains
of sand in all the worlds beaches.
There are 1028 atoms in your body.
IPv6 will give us 3.4 x 1038 addresses for computers,
etc.
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| April 24, 2004
| History
FactID: 22
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July 2nd is the real
US Independence Day.
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| Source: Micah Ratner, History Major
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| April 23, 2004
| Business
FactID: 21
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4.00 stars
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UPS,
the worlds biggest package carrier, delivers more than 13
million items daily.
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| April 22, 2004
| World
FactID: 20
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The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is
farther east than the Atlantic entrance.
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| Source: Katie Corbyons
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| April 21, 2004
| Technology
FactID: 19
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4.00 stars
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"Plasma" TV displays seem so cool
and cutting edge. I think they're just a whole bunch of tiny
fluorescent lights - 3/pixel (R,G,B).
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| Source: How Stuff Works
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| April 20, 2004
| Technology
FactID: 18
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2.00 stars
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Campus networking
levies fees from UNC departments not by headcount, but by telephone-count.
This is deemed to better represent the actual network usage
than the number of employees of a department.
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| Source: Jim Gogan, UNC Networking Head
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| April 19, 2004
| Math
FactID: 17
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Pi (value of 3.14...)
is graphically derived as follows:
(1) Draw a Circle.
(2) Measure the length around the circle.
(3) Measure the length across the circle.
(4) Divide the first number by the second and you arrive at
pi .
No matter who you are, what language you speak, where you live
on Earth, what base you use (binary, hexadecimal, decimal),
you still arrive at the same value of pi. No matter where
you live in the universe (human, alien), or what time period
(alongside dinosaurs, before Christ, today, or in a million
years) it will still be the same. It is built into the fabric
of the universe. See the last page of
Contact the book...
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| April 17, 2004
| Animals
FactID: 15
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Dogs can skateboard. Incredible.
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| April 16, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 14
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I am the 18th most popular Sunil in the world.
Google "sunil". Try
it.
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| April 14, 2004
| Food
FactID: 12
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PepsiCo
owns 16 brands that each generate over $1 billion in revenue.
Pepsi has 32% of the $64 billion U.S. soft drink market
PepsiCo merged with Frito-Lay in 1965. Snacks now account for
57% of PepsiCos worldwide revenue.
Diet Pepsi was created in 1964. Diet Coke was created in 1982.
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| April 13, 2004
| Random
FactID: 11
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1.50 stars
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The speed limit on Franklin Street is
20 miles per hour.
If you go 40mph (the normal speed of traffic during off-hours),
you get a speeding ticket :-(
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| April 12, 2004
| Business
FactID: 9
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2.00 stars
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A full page ad in the Daily
Tarheel at UNC-Chapel Hill costs ~$1,000.
PriceWaterHouseCoopers seems to do this about once a week.
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| April 11, 2004
| Business
FactID: 8
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General Motors
(GM) gave out $87 billion in pension benefits last year.
GM is one of only 3 companies to top the Fortune 500 in past
50 years.
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